Could You Recover From These Personal Branding Nightmares?
Does your personal brand have what it takes to overcome one of these nightmares?
5 personal branding nightmaresBeing Labeled A One Hit Wonder
People tend to starting using this label about someone who has had only one significant achievement long enough ago that they could have repeated it by now, yet haven’t. If that …
Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #4
Responses to recent tweets made recently by people about personal branding.
Sherman M. Cheng, @chengm7ny, asked: thinking of building up my personal brand…but what should I start with?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare:
The first part of a personal branding is to understand what its goals should be i.e, once you’ve understood what your personal branding goals …
A Quick Way To Measure Your Personal Brand Using Twitter Lists
Use Twitter Lists to see how people are branding you on Twitter. Are the results what you expect?
A simple branding testOne of the nice things about personal branding is the ease of verifying your efforts- just ask people in your target audience what comes to mind when they think of you:
If their…Ask The Readers: Where Did You First Hear About Personal Branding?
I’ll go first.
Actually, I don’t remember exactly where I first heard about personal branding, but I do remember when it happened.
Introduction to personal brandingIn the summer of 2006, up to my eyeballs in a trans-continental job search after having been laid off a few months before from a job in Paris, France, …
Reference: Impersonation Policies for Top Social Networks
I hope you never have to worry about anyone trying to impersonate you online, but just in case, here’s a handy reference for the major social networks.
TwitterFrom Twitter’s Impersonation Policy:
“The best way to report impersonation submitting a web request from the Support home page–be sure to select impersonation from the dropdown box! …
Do You Also Have These Misconceptions About Personal Branding?
A recent blog post by Jonathan Rick of Booz Allen Hamilton suggests that personal branding isn’t really that important for job search or career success. He’s both right and wrong.
Jonathan’s article was guest-posted on Lindsay Olson’s blog. In the well-written piece, Jonathan takes a look at 3 people – Cyrus Krohn, David Kralik and …
30 More Personal Branding Experts on Twitter
After the success of my first list of personal branding experts to follow on Twitter, here’s the followup:
Nance Rosen, @nancerosen Mohammed Al-Taee, @maltaee Harp Arora, @harparora Jan Melnik, @janmelnik Catherine Kaputa, @CatherineKaputa Cindy Kraft, @CFOCoach Deb Dib, @CEOCoach Gayle Howard, @GayleHoward Andy Robinson, @AndyInNaples Jason Alba, @jasonalba Jann Watt, @jannwatt Kim Batson, @CIO_Coach Krishna…Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #3
More answers to recent questions people are asking on Twitter about personal branding.
Benson Mensah-Bonsu, @bmbonsu, asked: What is the most important part of your personal brand?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare:
Your capacity to convince people that you are what you say you are.
Ideally that means having an authentic personal brand, one that is just …
How To Make The Most of a Celebrity Interview
If you had 15 minutes to impress a celebrity who could give your career the breakthrough you’ve been hoping for, here’s what you should do.
Background storyFor the past 3 years running, there’s been a guest blogging contest on my blog JobMob each summer. Every year the prizes have gotten better and better, but …
Revealed: PBB Experts and Personal Branding Success
Success stories are inspiring, so I asked every Personal Branding Blog contributor to describe when they first felt their own personal branding success.
Enjoy.
Dan Schawbel:There were two main instances that had proved the power of personal branding to me and they both happened in unison. First, after six months between March 14th and …